Letter from Colonel Sir Lewis Pelly, Baroda to His Lordship Lord Northbrook, Viceroy of India [‎11r] (11/14)

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hen he got the Us. 500 from Yeshwuntrao, he lent Jugga E,s. 100, and
ha£l an anklet of about Rs. 100 made, spending the balance on the marriage.
Soon after the close of the Commission, Salum told Rowjee that he had
got over the Jemadar Nursoo, and it was arranged that he should come to the
Maharaja the following Sunday with Rowjee. The visit accordingly was
made, \ eshwuntrao and Salum accompanying the Jemadar and Rowjee to
the presence of the Guicowar. The Jemadar was promised liberal rewards
and favours for information which he promised to send from the Residency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, established in the provinces and regions considered part of, or under the influence of, British India. .
Other visits of the same nature were paid before April 1874, when the Resident
went to Nowsaree on tour. At Nowsaree Salum corrupted the Resident's butler,
Pedro, and Rowjee through Yeshwuntrao and Salum obtained Rs. 250 for the
Jemadar Nursoo, which was afterwards paid at Baroda to his brother.
On the Resident's return to Baroda, the butler, Pedro, was several times
taken before the Guicowar by Rowjee in the usual manner with Yeshwuntrao
and Salum. On one of these the Guicowar desired him to use his knowledge of
English to report to him conversations at the Residency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, established in the provinces and regions considered part of, or under the influence of, British India. . Pedro went on leave,
and after his return again went as before to the Guicowar. On this occasion the
Maharaja told him he had some very important work for him, and Pedro
agreed to do it, if it lay in his power. Yeshwuntrao then handed the Guicowar
a packet which the latter gave Pedro, telling him to put it in his master's food.
Pedro was afraid of any sudden consequences, but the Guicowar assured him
that there would be no result for two or three months, at the end of which time his
master would either die or go mad. Then Pedro consented to do as desired.
The Jemadar's visits to the Guicowar with Rowjee continued, but he was not in
formed of Pedro's having gone to the palace. Rowjee received Rs. 300 from
the Jemadar as half the sum given for their joint present from the Guicowar.
About three weeks or a month before the attempt to poison the Resident, the
Jemadar and Rowjee were sent for, and went in the usual way to the palace,
where the Guicowar, after complaining that the Resident was very hard upon
him, asked them whether they could not give him something ia his food, and
Salum and Yeshwuntrao urged them to the business by promises of very large
rewards and favours. Hiey consented, and the Guicowar said that the substance
to be administered would be given them by Yeshwuntrao and Salum. A few
days after, the Jemadar gave Rowjee two powders to be given in three doses. It